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See also: Hope and hopë

English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English hopen, from Old English hopian (“hope”), from Proto-West Germanic *hopōn, further etymology unclear.

Verb

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hope (third-person singular simple present hopes, present participle hoping, simple past and past participle hoped)

  1. To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might [with that (+ clause) or clause or so].
    I hope everyone enjoyed the meal.
    He's still hoping that everything will turn out fine.
    — Is he going to shut up soon? — I hope so.
    I'm going to get a new car. I hope it will be better than the last one.
    • 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 593:
      It is to be hoped that some corresponding smartening up of these other schedules may be expected before long.
    • 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
      The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
  2. (catenative) To intend to do something and look forward to the prospect of having done it [with to (+ infinitive)].
    I hope to succeed.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
  3. (intransitive) To expect optimistically that one might get something (either a change in circumstance or an object) [with for].
    They're hoping for the best, but I don't think it's looking very good.
    I'm hoping for my boss to offer me a pay raise.
  4. (intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good [with in].
  5. (transitive, dialectal, nonstandard) To wish.
    I hope you all the best.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English hope, from Old English hopa (“hope, expectation”), from the same source as the verb hope.

Noun

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hope (countable and uncountable, plural hopes)

  1. (countable or uncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
    All hopes for a truce are gone after the latest attack.
    After losing my job, there's no hope of affording my world cruise.
    There is still hope that we can find our missing cat.
    • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
      My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out.
  2. (countable) The actual thing wished for.
  3. (countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.
    We still have one hope left: my roommate might see the note I left on the table.
  4. (Christianity, uncountable) The virtuous desire for future good.
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Etymology 3

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From Middle English hope (“a valley”), from Old English hōp (found only in placenames). More at hoop.

Noun

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hope (plural hopes)

  1. (Should we move, merge or split(+) this sense?) (Northern England, Scotland) A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a combe.

Etymology 4

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From Icelandic hóp (“a small bay or inlet”). Cognate with English hoop.

Noun

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hope (plural hopes)

  1. (Should we move, merge or split(+) this sense?) A sloping plain between mountain ridges.[1]
  2. (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.[2]

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  1. ^ “hope”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  2. ^ “hope”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Dutch

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Verb

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hope

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of hopen

Maori

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Noun

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hope

  1. waist
  2. hip (ringa hope)

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old English hopa.

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Noun

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hope (plural hopes)

  1. trust, confidence; wishful desire; expectation

Descendants

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  • English: hope
  • Yola: hopes (plural)

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Shona

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Etymology

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From the root of Common Bantu *dʊ̀kópè, whence also chikope (“eyelid”).

Noun

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hópé class 10

  1. sleep

Spanish

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Verb

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hope

  1. only used in me hope, first-person singular present subjunctive of hoparse
  2. only used in se hope, third-person singular present subjunctive of hoparse
  3. only used in se ... hope, syntactic variant of hópese, third-person singular imperative of hoparse

West Frisian

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hope n (no plural)

  1. Alternative form of hoop
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